Cruel optimism
By: Lauren Berlant
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780822350972; 9780822351115
Subjects: Social conditions; Progress; Popular culture; Optimism
Description: Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analzying mass media, literature, television, film, and video.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. affect in the present; title: Cruel optimism; title: Intuitionists: history and the affective event; title: Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency); title: Two girls, fat and thin; title: Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta; title: After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present; title: On the desire for the political.